Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-12-20
STATE NEWS.
CUMBERLAND.

4 Mr. Jordan of the Portland Star Match Co
and their agent Mr.. Phillips, were in Bridg
ton Wednesday, and bought about a million
fleet of pine timber as follows of Chas Fes
sender, +. S. March and Thatcher Merrill
Ethe Geo. Hartman timber, estimated at $50
1000 feet; of Austin and Thatcher Merrill
about - 900 feet; of Luther Stevens abou
| 10 900 feet; of Is. +. Whitney Il like amount
and of owen Ingalls, and Joseph Roes, theil
climber.
Again has been heard the loud and terrify
ling nightly cries of a strange animal in tn,
Immediate vicinity of Sandy Creek neal
IBridgton village. Next day it was found tina
IA dead COW had been dug up and partly cate,
/ by some beast, whose large tracks were lief
fpainly visible in the gravel. Evidently some
member of the wildcat species.
FRANKLIN.
Whitney and Foster, the two alleged Eas
Newport robbers, had great experience OF
Itheir trip through Franklin county to escape
1.-The officers and the people over there are
still eagerly discussing them and trying t,
Keep greatly excited over the matter The,
|went through Mexico the night of their arres
about half past four O'Clock. They had :
7Dxiield stable team and called at the stor,
kept by Hervey W. Park and inquired il
[they could cross the Androscoggin at Rum
ford Centre. Learning that they could, the,
Flid not seem to be in a hurry, and obtained
h drink of water some apples aud cigars
EThey evidently were hungry. Their eatin.
of the apples indicated it. Park had sus
|picions that they were not on legitimate bust
mess.
HANCOCK.
IT. Mn,,,t nosort u,-al ,.,s ..yUa -.
that Mr.. W. E. Richardson, manager of the
|Louisburg Hotel, has purchased an nteres,
i'm the house and will continue to act as
manager. The Louisburg is to be greatly
enlarged before another season."
KESNEBEc.
The Waterville Mail says The co-partner-
ship of Brown & Hager has been dissolved.
Mr.. Brown having purchased the interest of
his partner will continue the business. Two
young miscreants were brought before Judge
Stewart Wednesd and fined So each for
breaking and otherwise injuring property on
|the Plains. Richard Furlong, while on one
|of his periodical drunken sprees, was ARE stetl
lon the Plains last Saturday evening and in
resisting the attempt of the officers to put him
INTO the cell his shoulder was dislocated
The lumber for the shovel-handle factory
BAT Oakland, was not on the ground till the
first week in November, but the work has
been driven along vigorously, and the build 4
ing is now completed, and the engine set and
running. The machinery will be all set and
running in few days. Shovel-hande block I
are already arriving and work will commenced
very soon. Mr.. Marshall has orders ahead
for all the handles he can make in two years
The business viii employ some ten or twelveI
men.
PENoBscor.
Hon. Charles Shaw of Dexter has resigned!
as President of the Dexter and Newport
Railroad. owing to his i'll health and not be J
ing able to act if the contemplated eutensionI
from Dexter to Guilford is made.
The superintendent of the Maine State
College farm has purchased magnificent
Norman ercheron stallion to be kept on the
farm for breeding purposes. He is Al
thorough bred. nine year old and weighs
100 pounds. His color is beautiful dappieI
gray and he is perfect in every particular |
The price paid for him was Sl500 and he il
now in Portland on the way to Orono This
move will be thoroughly appreciated BY the !
farmers and stock raisers of Eastern Maine |
For some time past the college authorities
have intended to make such = purchase but
they have never found horse that they
wanted until this one.
PIscArkQUIs.
Fred II. Coombs of Bangor died at Green
vile Friday morning. The-cause was not,
stated. Mr.. Coombs was a man of about
ffty-seven years of age; his father was
Phillip H. Coombs. For many years the
deceased was a civil engineer and did fine!
business in Bangor. He was possessed OF
brilliant abilities and would have made hi,
mark BY close attention to his profession.
Hon. +. W. Hill of Exeter has one of the
best producing farms in the country. The
past season he raised 1000 bushels Of field
corn on nine acres. He will winter i25 cattle